Penguins History
Penguins Family Ties: The Franchise's Father-Son Duos
December 3rd, 2018 OTTAWA — A second group has expressed its interest in developing Ottawa's LeBreton Flats, and it says an NHL arena is part of its plan. DevCore Group, which submitted a bid to develop the area near Parliament Hill in 2016 but lost to a group co-he...
Penguins & Thanksgiving Eve: A Holiday Tradition
November 19th, 2018 American Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November and ushers in the holiday season, bringing with it a myriad of made-up, lesser celebrations like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Since 2014, the night before Thanksgiving—Thanksgiving Eve—has been coined...
Peerless Penguins: 5 Unforgettable Seasons Since 2008
November 10th, 2018 The era of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin has produced a number of memorable moments in Pittsburgh Penguins history. From the 2008 playoff run, which saw the team come within two wins of winning the Stanley Cup, only to hoist it the next season, and the back-to-back Cups...
Curse of the Penguins No. 19
November 6th, 2018 When the Pittsburgh Penguins made a three-way trade with the Ottawa Senators and Vegas Golden Knights on Feb. 23, 2018, a three-peat Stanley Cup victory looked within reach. The deal sent defenseman Ian Cole and goalie Filip Gustavsson to the Senators and right winger Ryan...
5 Penguins Who Went From Supervillains to Superheroes
October 27th, 2018 There is always an opposing player that every city loves to hate. He gets away with the cheap shots, agitates the defense, or has the goalie’s number. The city hates him… until he becomes one of their own. The Pittsburgh Penguins and their fans are no stranger to this...
Remembering What Made Mario Lemieux Greatest
October 26th, 2018 Equal parts exhilarating and devastating, sports are quite simply unpredictable. Ask the city of Pittsburgh. This week 25 years ago, Penguins fans experienced both emotions at the same time. Riding back-to-back Stanley Cup championships and looking like a team destined to...
Ron Jones: A Forgotten First-Rounder
June 3rd, 2018 Former NHL defenseman Ron Jones had a successful hockey career, even if that success did not transfer to the NHL. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound blueliner was an offensive-defenseman during his junior hockey career with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Canada Hockey League...
Upstart Golden Knights Similar to 2015-16 Penguins
May 13th, 2018 In a recent press conference, San Jose Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer was asked about the similarities between the 2015-16 Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins and the Sharks current rival, the Vegas Golden Knights. In 2016, the Penguins defeated DeBoer’s Sharks in...
Remembering Sidney Crosby's Enforcers
February 26th, 2018 There was a time when the Pittsburgh Penguins felt that their once-in-a-generation superstar Sidney Crosby needed a gang of toughs to keep him safe. He was an 18-year-old phenom during the 2005-06 NHL season and was entirely fresh-faced. With the Penguins as a basement...
Crosby Passes Jagr but Who's Better?
January 27th, 2018 Sidney Crosby tallied three points in a 6-3 Pittsburgh Penguins win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night to overtake the one and only Jaromir Jagr on the Penguins' all-time points list. With 1082 points and counting, Crosby sits solely as the 2nd leading scorer in...
Five Most Important Players in Penguins History
January 27th, 2018 Since their NHL inception in 1967, the Pittsburgh Penguins have seen many hockey heroes of past and present don the fabled black and gold. From the rise, to the the ashes of the Igloo, and onward to the PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh has proven itself a hockey city through...
The Enforcer Awakens: A Pittsburgh Penguins Story
January 23rd, 2018 A long time ago, in a hockey galaxy far far away, there lived a humble yet hardy horde of trash-talking, melee-loving misfits who existed only to defend their leaders against the many evils of an icy empire. Their hands were hardened, their bodies bruised, and their smug...
Penguins 1992-93 Win Streak One for the Record Books
January 8th, 2018 It didn't seem like a big deal at the time. A 3-2 win by the Pittsburgh Penguins over the visiting Boston Bruins at The Igloo on Mar. 9, 1993, stopped a two-game losing streak. Joe Mullen's second goal of the game 25 seconds into the third period proved to be the...
